R. Kelly - "Trapped In The Closet"

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normally Id want an artist to refrain from trying to add to a great work. More often then not it turns out badly but the nature of "trapped" lends itself to more and more. its too ridiculous to take seriously. its too much fun to resist anyway. I guess ill be tuning in now.

― jmeister (jmeister), Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link

this is so so bad but i have to give r credit for thinking up the whole thing and getting lots of people hooked into it. A for the idea, F on the execution.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link

word is that R.'s performance at this weekend's MTV VMA's will be of a brand new chapter of "Trapped"!

about time!

― My life with Baaderonixx and the Choco-pops babies (Fabfunk), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:53 (eighteen years ago) link

oh mama !
when are the vma's already ?
that will be the first time i see a live performance of kels...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 26 August 2005 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link

can u tape it AleXTC?

― My life with Baaderonixx and the Choco-pops babies (Fabfunk), Friday, 26 August 2005 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link

just got the dvd with the kitchen-sink drama TIC featuring Kels himself...it explains a few things that cant be recognisable from lyrics, but the acting is mostly appaling...i must say i prefer Kels in the sex tapes than him going round the bedroom with loaded gun

― karl76 (karl76), Friday, 26 August 2005 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Ne... Kels je dobry herec!

― My life with Baaderonixx and the Choco-pops babies (Fabfunk), Friday, 26 August 2005 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link

impossible, mon magneto est mort... je vais voir si je trouve qlq'un qui peut dans mon entourage...
ca va sinon ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I guess i'll be looking for it on the web then

― My life with Baaderonixx and the Choco-pops babies (Fabfunk), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link

My favorite part of the video is Kelly's acting in pt.5 when his wife asks him to sit down and ask her if she knows a girl named x(?). its fantastic!

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

This is seriously terrible.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Are there videos online for chapters 6-12?

I've only gotten to see 1-5 and I'm stuck at work, aaaaaaagh

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

ok i think i found 6-8

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

aaagh maybe not

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.flagpole.com/articles.php?fp=TrappedInTheCloset

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Is there music for chapters 6-12?

No, ok — thanks.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Hilary's piece is awesome! Easily my favorite on the subject to date.

― 'Twan (miccio), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I think she overeggs it a little by dropping in one or two many "intellectual" references (Harold Bloom, e.g.), but yeah, it's a good piece.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

I hope this helps someone. there hasnt been a post for a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=scKnvg-JIDE&search=r.%20kelly

― Masterkiller, Friday, 30 December 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

by the way that was chapters 6-10. Videos.

― Masterkiller, Friday, 30 December 2005 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link

did we all lose interest?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link

dunno... maybe kels should move to something new now (with some friends, i thought he should have released a christmas/new year's eve album !).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 2 January 2006 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link

it's funny that they're not leaking out, if indeed there are more chapters. as kit brash said to me a few months back, if he released a chapter every fortnight via itunes, everyone would be HANGING for the next instalment.

― waldo jeffers scenario (haitch), Monday, 2 January 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I think people would be pretty much exactly how they seem to be now; bemused, bored and completely oversaturated with their yearly allotment of R. Kelly nonsense.

― Dan (Trapped In The Closet Part 593) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 2 January 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

more than people, it's a wonder that kels didn't get bored before. somehow, i don't really see him as a person who sticks to an idea for years...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

People I talk to still seem pretty entertained by it all. The midget helped.

― 'Twan (miccio), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

well, i really enjoyed the dvd. but i don't know, i don't really see the suite going for much more.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I was all ready to say "shark jump" when I first heard the audio of 6-8 but after seeing how it all worked out I wouldn't presume to know when he'll run out of insanity.

― 'Twan (miccio), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

well, i keep thinking (since part 2!) that the constraint he put over himself of having one music/melody over and over is a... conceptual mistake !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't.

― 'Twan (miccio), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

i finally watched this, and i have to say that i find it without much merit. it's marginally entertaining or at least distracting as a fairly replete anthology of bad narrative tricks and clichés, and for its incoherence (for instance, how r. twins himself as protagonist AND visible narrator about mid-way through the series). and the fact that r. kelly was able to do this with fairly high production values -- and get so much exposure for what would be considered a failure as a junior-high-school play. i think dan's right; after the initial "wtf" reaction this doesn't really have much to recommend it. there are actually some nice camera movements and i like the (conscious?) use of now-stylized-seeming rear projection in the driving sequences. the other merits are all musical. in deciding to narrate absolutely everything, r. has done a few things with his basic r&b vocal approach that haven't been done in a while, and he is able to make the most of the skeletal, repetitive structure than probably any other singer/producer could've (or would have wanted to). there are probably some musical ideas in here worth copping. but as a whole, watching this and even thinking much about this is tedious.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 2 January 2006 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link

the "insanity" that so many here (including myself, earlier) keep referring to doesn't really seem like a particular inventive variety of insanity! i mean obviously r. is a bit cracked, and as important he doesn't seem to have anyone around him who's prepared to veto any of his ideas. but the results don't really have the sui-generis interest of some other "insane" music; they seem to reveal a certain poverty of imagination. the effect is of being pummeled with someone else's fixations in a fairly undecorative form: the mechanics of infidelity, the wielding of guns.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 2 January 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Oh good fucking grief.

I just saw this. All of it. Why?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Some things in life you've just gotta get through.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

all trapped in the closet fans should check out the sparkle 'be careful' video too.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I have the dvd and have been quite a fan but I wonder if I'll ever watch it again...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

sparkle ft r kelly - be careful

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I just saw this. All of it. Why?

-- Sick Mouthy

Dude, this is the most classic thing ever. I think I know all the words. My favourite bit in the video is the bit when R. sings "midget!" and there's a delay on his voice and for everytime the word is repeated he teleports back slightly until he's standing in the kitchen cupboard with his cigar. A masterstroke of visual art.

― jimn (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

The wikipedia entry for this is all I need to know. Holy Christ.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

No, dude, you need to watch it. Really.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

the saddest thing being we might never know the end of this cliffhanging story...
unless : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i have seen just a clip -- the midget part -- and that was mindblowing enough. i should get round to it for reals.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

We want the second season!

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

TITC is supremely entertaining. it's simultaneously one of the greatest and worst things ever produced by humankind. it alternates between mind-bogglingly tedious awfulness and uniquely inspired cartoon genius almost from second to second. kelly is a titan of comedy. he's managed to make a brilliantly observed spoof of something that didn't even really exist before he spoofed it.

all trapped in the closet fans should check out the sparkle 'be careful' video too.

eh? I didn't get this at all...far too po-faced. where's the love, I ask you? where's the love?

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

god i fucking love be careful! i'm going to buy that on itunes right now!

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, I'd read about it and heard about it and even seen parodies of it, but until I saw the whole thing the horrible scale and sincerity of it had never struck me.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

'sincerity'? are you sure? it's much smarter than that.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't believe it's been almost 2 years already. such a wonderful time it was to watch it unravel.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

the excitement, anticipation and WTF with each new part...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

eh? I didn't get this at all...far too po-faced. where's the love, I ask you? where's the love?

two years ago, promises is all i heard :(

i think the sincerity in 'be careful' works in much the same way as in TITC - TITC is more obviously tongue-in-cheek maybe but there's the same love of grand gestures and melodrama (ie both funny and moving).

btw sparkle is the aunt of the girl r kelly pissed on.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

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